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Description: | Cast copper alloy ring. The loop has been bent out of shape and is now 25.1mm by 19.1mm measured externally and 3.1 wide by 1.2 thick. The ring has a square bezel 8.4mm wide by 9.5mm long. The bezel is decorated with three incised cossing lines making a six pointed star flanked by two more incised lines. The bezel is flush with the ring and not raised. The shoulders are formed by two slightly raised bars between three grooves on one side, and one raised bar between two grooves on the other, both creating a stepping effect. The ring weighs 2.6 grams.
No exact parallel was found in the usual sources although the general style is considered medieval. The square decorated bezel and plain rectangular sectioned hoop is paralleled in Egan (2007) page 162, Plate 29 No. 1983 which he dates to the 11th-12th centuries AD; that example has three squares forming the bezel and no stepping on the shoulder. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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